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CVE-2024-37899: XWiki Platform allows remote code execution from user account

criticalCVSS 3.1 9.0GHSA-j584-j2vj-3f93

Impact When an admin disables a user account, the user's profile is executed with the admin's rights. This allows a user to place malicious code in the user profile before getting an admin to disable the user account.

Published Jun 20, 2024 · Updated Feb 5, 2025

Affected packages

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

Ecosystem
Maven
Affected
>= 13.4.7, < 13.5
Fixed in
14.10.21
Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

Ecosystem
Maven
Affected
>= 13.10.3, < 14.10.21
Fixed in
14.10.21
Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

Ecosystem
Maven
Affected
>= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.5
Fixed in
15.5.5
Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

Ecosystem
Maven
Affected
>= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.10.6
Fixed in
15.10.6
Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

Ecosystem
Maven
Affected
>= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.0.0
Fixed in
16.0.0
Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore

Advisory details

From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).

Impact

When an admin disables a user account, the user's profile is executed with the admin's rights. This allows a user to place malicious code in the user profile before getting an admin to disable the user account.

To reproduce, as a user without script nor programming rights, edit the about section of your user profile and add {{groovy}}services.logging.getLogger("attacker").error("Hello from Groovy!"){{/groovy}}. As an admin, go to the user profile and click the "Disable this account" button. Then, reload the page. If the logs show attacker - Hello from Groovy! then the instance is vulnerable.

Patches

This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.6 and 16.0.0.

Workarounds

We're not aware of any workaround except upgrading.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611
  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f89c8f47fad6e5cc7e68c69a7e0acde07f5eed5a

References

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